Carl at God's Big Drive Thru

Posted Jan 19th 2008 4:56PM by TMZ Staff

Carl N. Karcher, founder of the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain, has died. When TMZ went for lunch today, we were given the below obit. "Here's your burger and our boss died. Enjoy your meal!"

Frontiere Kicks It

Posted Jan 18th 2008 6:53PM by TMZ Staff

TMZ has learned Rams owner Georgia Frontiere has died in L.A.

Frontiere inherited the Rams when her husband, Carroll Rosenbloom died while swimming. There were unsubstantiated rumors that he drowned in a hot tub with Frontiere.

A St. Louis native, she moved the team there and the team later won a Super Bowl.

A rep for the family tells us that Georgia died at UCLA Medical Center.

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shouldn't laugh, but that's almost as bad as Penis With Ears'

Woah! The National Enquirer was right!

Congratulations Worsters! First points of the season goes to:

Suzanne Pleshette 1/31/37 Vee Eff Tee Dubya, WhatsADikfur

Suzanne Pleshette, known as 'Newhart's' wife, dies in Los Angeles

It was very considerate of Suzanne to die just before her birthday and earn you guys an extra point!

Congrats!!

I think the Enquirer sends interns to the homes of the ailing celebrities to smother them with a pillow to make sure their headlines are always right.

Carl from Carl's Jr. is (was) a grade-A asshole who favored extreme right-wing anti-gay causes. And his company gave Paris Hilton gainful employment with the world's sluttiest hamburger ad a few years ago, so I can't shed any tears for him.

Carl from Carl's Jr. is (was) a grade-A asshole who favored extreme right-wing anti-gay causes. And his company gave Paris Hilton gainful employment with the world's sluttiest hamburger ad a few years ago, so I can't shed any tears for him.

I'm glad I'm not the only morbid person who had that exact same though

Christian Brando Dies

Posted Jan 26th 2008 5:55PM by TMZ Staff

Marlon Brando's oldest son, Christian Brando, died early this morning at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles, David Seeley, a lawyer for Marlon Brando's estate confirmed to the AP. He was 49.

Brando had been in the ICU since January 11 for pneumonia.

Seeley said the family had no funeral plans yet, adding, "This is a sad and difficult time for the family."

Christian had a minor roles in a few movies, but his real life was far more compelling; he went to prison for voluntary manslaughter in the death of his half-sister's boyfriend, Dag Drollet. He also was accused by Robert Blake's defense attorneys of having a role in Bonnie Lee Bakley's murder. Bonnie had originally named Brando as the father of her child with Blake.

Sources tell us that Brando had most recently been working in construction under a pseudonym.

Seeley said Brando was unmarried at the time of his death and had no children.

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Former dictator Suharto, an army general who crushed Indonesia's communist movement and pushed aside the country's founding father to usher in 32 years of tough rule that saw up to a million political opponents killed, died Sunday. He was 86.

"He has died," Dr. Christian Johannes told The Associated Press, adding that he died at 1:10 p.m.

Dozens of doctors on Suharto's medical team had been rushed to the Pertamina Hospital in the capital, Jakarta, after his blood pressure fell suddenly Saturday night. Suharto had slipped out of consciousness for the first time in more than three weeks of treatment, doctors said.

Suharto had been in intensive care with lung, heart and kidney failure since he was admitted to the hospital on Jan. 4. Over the past week his physicians had spoken of a recovery, but by Sunday that had changed dramatically.

Suharto, who led a regime widely regarded as one of the 20th century's most brutal and corrupt, has lived a reclusive life in a comfortable villa in downtown Jakarta for the past decade.

He had been in and out of the hospital several times since being toppled by a pro-democracy uprising during the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis for heart problems and internal bleeding.

Historians say up to 800,000 alleged communist sympathizers were killed during Suharto's rise to power from 1965 to 1968. His troops killed another 300,000 in military operations against independence movements in Papua, Aceh and East Timor.

Suharto's poor health had kept him from facing trial, and no one has been punished for the killings.

Corruption watchdog Transparency International has said Suharto and his family amassed billions of dollars in stolen state funds, allegations the family is fighting in court.

(CNN) -- Mormon leader Gordon B. Hinckley died Sunday night at age 97, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints announced.

Gordon B. Hinckley, 97, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died Sunday.

Hinckley served as president of the Salt Lake City-based church since 1995 and has been a member of its top leadership since the 1960s. He died about 7 p.m. Sunday (9 p.m. ET) with his family by his side, church officials announced.

The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, which becomes the nearly 13 million-member church's governing body upon the death of the president, will choose a successor after Hinckley's funeral.

No arrangements had been announced.